Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-08-10
THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.

A. +. Butler, director OF the South Caro-
lima Weather Service, furnishes the follow
ing report concerning the effect of the
weather on the crops during the week en-
ding August 6, 1888. &
The rainfall during the past week has
been above the average. In some sections
the showers were heavy, but throughout
the State generally the precipitation has
been fairly distributed. The effect on the
growing crop has been unfayorable.
The temperature has been about the
average and has affected the crops favora-
bly,.
The amount of sunshine during the week
has been less than the average. ,
Cotton has suffered from the excessive
rains, which caused the plant to shed.
Traces of rust are also reported. Upland
corn continues in good condition, but much
of that in the bottom lands along the
Broad, Congaree, Wateree and Edisto
rivers has been reported destroyed by the
overfows. Altogether the outlook, though
still encouraging, is not SO favorable as it
was a week ago.
THE SIGNAL FIG REPORT.
The weather crop bulletin of the Signal
Office at Washington for the week ending
last Saturday says:
Drought continues in the States north of
the Ohio Valley, but there has been ain ex-
cess of rain during the past week through
out the cotton and tobacco regions, and in
the interior of New York and Pennsyl-
vania. There was also IN excess of rain
during the week in the Missouri Valley,
and numerous showers occurred in Iowa,
Minnesota and Dakota, and neal Lake
Superior.
During the past four weeks the large
seasonal deficiency of rainfall in the cotton
regions has been greatly reduced, while
ficiency in Illinois, Iowa, Indiana and
southern portions of Wisconsin and Mich
igan has been increased. Drought in this
section has proved decidedly injurious to
growing crops.
Reports for the week ending August
6 indicate that the weather has been favor
able in the west portion of the cotton re-
gion, from central Alabama to Texas; but
from Alabama eastward the rain has been
greatly in excess, probably resulting in
injury to growing cotton in the low lands.
Numerous showers occurred in Mime
sofa, Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, northwest
Missouri and northern Kansas, improving
the condition of growing crops in those
sections, but the drought continues in the
corn States east of the Mississippi, result
ing in serious injury to all growing crops.
The weather in New England and the
Middle Atlantic States is generally re-
ported as u~nfavorable, the wet weather
retarding the harvest and injuring the
grain, hay and potatoes, near the coast.
While the conditions are reported as favor
able for corn in these districts, an excess of
sunshine and temperature, combined with
slight excess of rainfall in Kentucky and
Tennessee during the past week, has prob
ably improved the condition of the to-
bacco crop.
COTTON AND CORN IN THE WEST.
The monthly crop report for the Men,
pills district, which embraces West Ten
nessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama
and North Arkansas, published last Mon
"The weather during the month of July
wa in the main favorable for cotton. This
is emphasized by the splendid reports re-
ceived from Mississippi and Alabama,
where crops are more promising. Com
plants are received from Arkansas, where
drought has prevailed in some localities
and damage has been done to the plant.
In Tennessee rain is badly needed in sever
al sections, and injury to both cotton and
corn are reported.
"The outlook on the whole, however, is
very satisfactory and a yield largely in
excess of last year al be confidently an
ticipated. The season is fully two weeks
earlier than last year and picking, which
will commence in some localities about
the Goth of August, will become general
throughout the district by September 10.
"The corn crop, especially in Alabama
and Mississippi, is reported unusually fine,
and the yield will be above an average
and more than necessary for home con-